Learning to be an intelligent investor

A colleague of mine recently recommended me a few good books on investments. I took mental notes on her recommendations and forgot about it after a week. Recently I was surfing MPH Online and found some management books on 30% discount. I was elated to see that one of the books she recommended me was on sale! I placed an order and received it 2 days later. Actually, I didn’t just buy that one book, there were several others that interested me, so I picked those up as well, all at 30% discount. Now that should make a good investment already!

One of the books I got is written by the mentor of Warren Buffet, Benjamin Graham titled The Intelligent Investor. It talks about value investing and is a rather thick book of close to 600 pages. I guess this is one of those books you can’t rush through to be able to extract learnings and values out of it.

The other book is a relatively new one that’s been published early this year – Profit From The Peak written by Brian Hicks and Chris Nelder. It talks about what’s next after the greatest investment event of the century that is oil, comes to an end.

The third book I got talks about easy new ways to make money from your interests, insights and inventions. Some recent posts ago I talked about making money out of hobbies and I really mean to explore how I can best leverage on what I like doing to make some extra pocket money. So I hope this book will help me with some ideas and insights on how I can get started.

It looks like a lot of books to read all at once but I’m in no rush at all. Investing is a long term game, so I won’t rush in and out of anything just yet. As it is, I am quite happy to have started some level of investments and move on from there.